Ben More Assynt South Top

About Ben More Assynt South Top

Ben More Assynt South Top is a 959.3-metre subsidiary summit of Ben More Assynt, whose name translates as 'big mountain of Assynt'. At 998 metres the parent mountain is the highest point in Sutherland, rising in the far north-west of Scotland about 30 kilometres north-north-east of Ullapool; the Top is classified as a Munro Top, a Simm and a Murdo.

Ben More Assynt sits in the east of Assynt, apart from the area's better-known but lower mountains such as Suilven, and is hidden from the A837 road by the neighbouring Munro of Conival, so the best views of it come from nearby summits. Its upper slopes are capped with light-coloured quartzite boulders that lend the mountain a distinctive appearance, and more than 90 square kilometres of surrounding land have been declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest for their geological interest and rare plant species.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Ben More Assynt (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 58.131, -4.848. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

21-Jul-24

Drop measured from

NC 3218 1957 · 912.5 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Get food nearby

2 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Ben More Assynt South Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Ben More Assynt (999 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 913 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks